I've read multiple stories about the terrible news about those three teenagers who died in newquay celebrating finishing their exams. It's awful.
But I've seen a lot of attacks been made towards Newquay directly. Am I the only one who remembers being 16 or 18 or 21? I often think back on my behaviour at that age and shudder. DH and I have talked about how hard it will be in due course to have teenagers when we remember so vividly how stupid we were. I'd like to think I was at least brought up sensibly enough that while I made some mistakes, I made fewer than I could have and was generally not quite as stupid as it's possible to be but...
Surely, it's not about the place they go to drink - if it wasn't a tacky nightclub strip beach town, it would be somewhere else?
Personally, I think it's terrible and I wish we could stop it, but blaming the town seems pointless. Teenagers have been behaving like this as long as there have been teenagers in the world?
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Newquay - does it deserve the vitriol...? Have we all forgotten what it's like to be teenagers?
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OhBling · 16/07/2009 10:09
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